Lantern slide showing the Deshler-Morris House at 5442 Germantown Avenue, a house with two chimneys and ivy climbing the walls.
The house is surrounded by trees and a boy rides a bicycle on the sidewalk. The road in front of the house has trolley tracks
running down the center. David Deshler built the original four-room summer cottage on this Germantown lot in 1752, adding
the three-story front addition in 1772. The house was sold to Col. Isaac Franks in 1792 after Deshler’s death. President George
Washington rented the home for the duration of the yellow fever epidemic of 1793 and the summer of 1794. Elliston and John
Perot purchased the house in 1804, selling it to Elliston’s son-in-law Samuel B. Morris after his death in 1834. The house
stayed in the possession of the Morris family for over a century, when Elliston P. Morris donated the house to the National
Parks Service in 1948. The name was officially changed to the Germantown White House in 2009.

Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris
Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris
Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan
White Morris, and David Marriott Morris.